"House Delays Renewal of Voting Rights Act"
AP offers this
report,
which begins: "House GOP leaders on Wednesday postponed the renewal of
the 1965 Voting Rights Act under objections from Southern Republicans
who complained during a private meeting that the legislation unfairly
singles out their states for federal oversight." According to the
article, it is now unclear whether the legislation will come up this
year:
The dramatic shift came after a private caucus meeting earlier
Wednesday in which several Republicans also balked at extending
provisions in the law that require ballots to be printed in more than
one language in neighborhoods where there are large numbers of
immigrants, said several participants.
"The speaker's had a standing rule that nothing would be voted on
unless there's a majority of the majority,"' said Rep. Lynn
Westmoreland, R-Ga., who led the objections. "It was pretty clear at
the meeting that the majority of the majority wasn't there."
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